Faculty Presentations and Invited Talks

The Mathematics department prides itself on a tradition of active and productive research.
Below are recent Presentations and Invited Talks that Department of Mathematics faculty
members have given on their recent research topics in chronological order.

Kong, Lingju, “Existence of solutions to a discrete fourth order periodic boundary value problem,”New
Trends in Differential and Difference Equations Conference'' in honor of Prof. John
R. Graef's 70th birthday, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN,
March 15-16, 2013.

Ledoan, Andrew, "Limit points of the sequence of normalized gaps between consecutive primes," INTEGERS
2013: The Erdos Centennial Conference, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, Georgia,
October 25, 2013.

John R. Graef, Lingju Kong, Q. Kong, and Min Wang, Uniqueness and parameter dependence of positive solutions to a higher order boundary
value problem with fractional q-derivatives, an invited address presented in the Special
Session ``Fractional, Hybrid, and Stochastic Dynamical Systems with Applications,"
at the 119th Annual Meeting of the American Mathematical Society, held in San Diego,
California, January 9--12, 2013.

John R. Graef and S. Saker, Hardy's type inequalities on time scales, presented at the Nineteenth International
Conference on Difference Equations and Applications held at Sultan Qaboos University,
Muscat, Oman on May 26--30, 2013.

John R. Graef and E. Tunc, Oscillation criteria for second-order functional dynamic equations on time-scales,
presented at the Thirty--Third Annual Southeastern--Atlantic Regional Conference on
Differential Equations, held at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Knoxville,
Tennessee, September 21--22, 2013.

John R. Graef, Nonoscillation of all solutions of a higher order nonlinear delay dynamic equation
on time scales, an invited plenary lecture presented at the conference "A Celebration
of the Many Accomplishments of Professor Allan Peterson," held at the University of
Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, October 25--27, 2013.

John R. Graef, Lingju Kong, and Min Wang, Homoclinic solutions for second order difference equations with p-Laplacian, with
L. Kong and M. Wang, presented at the conference "A Celebration of the Many Accomplishments
of Professor Allan Peterson," held at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska,
October 25--27, 2013.

Lingju Kong, “Homoclinic solutions for second order difference equations with p-Laplacian.” Invited
talk in the Peterson Conference to celebrate the many accomplishments of Professor
Allan Peterson, Charles Bessey Professor of Mathematics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, October 25–27, 2013